The history of Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...

Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years ...

A rare daytime fireball over Ohio reveals how space rocks reach Earth, why some explode, and how scientists track their fall ...

Magnetic crystals provide the earliest evidence yet of the plate tectonics that likely made Earth habitable, pushing its start back by 140 million years.

A new study focuses on krypton gas in the hopes of understanding how ancient coastlines and landscapes change in Earth’s past ...

The film which opens in theaters Thursday is grounded in a real nearby star systems an exoplanet science, with a dose of fictional biology.

Scientists have discovered “alien-like” water inside a 400-million-year-old plant, revealing unusual chemistry that could ...

Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers have so far identified over 6,000 exoplanets beyond our solar system, only a ...

A quirk of scheduling – or an APS organizer with a dark sense of humour – meant that the two sessions were practically next ...

Friday, March 20, 2026 (at exactly 10:46 a.m. ET), marks both its triumphant return in the Northern Hemisphere and the spring equinox. Get ready for longer days, warmer weather, a ...

On March 20, 2026, Earth will experience the March Equinox, when day and night nearly balance worldwide as the Sun aligns directly above the equator. Earth is tilted at about 23.5 degrees, but during ...